San Antonio Startup Weekend 2

Even though we’ll be in a 54 hours “0 to Launch” business building frenzy, we still want to have fun. So on Saturday for our pre-dinner entertainment we will enjoy the rocking dulcet tones of Laura Marie who will offer us a well deserved break in the action.

Photo courtesy of Laura Marie
Laura Marie’s pre-dinner entertianment [...]

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We love our sponsors and are thankful we have folks like @designminded who created this cool banner for Startup Weekend San Antonio II

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Lots of discussion about Startup Weekend’s new multiple project structure, shares and how to manage the fact that people/talent will float between teams. In keeping with San Antonio’s friendly reputation, we all agree that people who are not primary members of each team will get rolled up into an LLC and get a minority [...]

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So the room was warm before, and now it’s really heating up as folks advocate for the three remaining ideas: dream interpretation widget, vacation rental community site, exchange/auction site for military goods. Debate on monetizing the sites, complexity of development in 3 days, and the fact that we only have one [...]

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The concepts were narrowed down to:

Dream Interpretation widget
Vacation Rental Community Site
Secure Smart Home Interface

Erica commented that many previous weekends’ ideas were almost exclusively tech focused, however, the SA group generated a lot of “real world” business concepts. Interestingly, some of San Antonio’s unique characteristics - proximity to the border with Mexico & our strong [...]

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First round of ideas are in:
Universal lamp socket (Tirso)
Poop Scooper (Carl)
Trailer for Small Cars (John)
Fish Thing (Daniel)
Dream Thing(Donald)
Business Franchise Idea (Carl)
Sell My Corp (Alysan)
Event Planning Site (Shaine)
Dress Donation Matching (Vidya)
Group Chat (Joe)
Strength Tracking (Don)
Vacation Rental Community Site (Tony)
International Ad Production Site for Small US Businesses (Magaly)
What Are You Drinking? (Jess)
Survivor Style Online Game (Jess)
Back Window [...]

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Did I mention we have a participant who works for a wine company?  Yeah, Jess is my favorite SW’er so far.

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Nothing like pizza and beer to make new friends and open the idea generation chute. I’ll be in and out this weekend, sharing blogging duties with Shaine, Jennifer and a couple other folks.
So this is a good start. So far by my count we’ve got one soldier, a couple soon-to-be multimillionaires (when the IPO goes [...]

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